Kitty is nice at the moment, but is pretty daunting and gtk2 window frames are ugly. It would also fix the previous resize issue entirely, just by using GTK events instead of the current system.
I made a quick mockup in glade.
TermMockup.zip
geordieF
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kitty does not use GTK. Indeed kitty does not draw any window frames at all. It does draw a simple window border when you use a tiling layout, but that can be turned off in the configuration.
kovidgoyal
on 7 Jan 2017
No, GTK would be to contain the GL context
geordieF
on 7 Jan 2017
Yeah, one of the design goals of kitty is to not use any GUI toolkits, thereby being a simple and dependency light, portable as possible. Also (while this is entirely a matter of taste) I like the fact that the tabbar in kitty is drawn exactly like a UI from a terminal program, rather than the typical GUI toolkit tabbar/scrollbars which I find out of place in a terminal. There is no doubt that this makes kitty a little less new user friendly, but that is a price I am willing to pay -- kitty is not really meant for someone that just occassionally uses a terminal but for a someone that lives in one.
kovidgoyal
on 7 Jan 2017
Right. I might make a fork of this, as I like having a hardware accellerated terminal, with a 4K display it is noticable.
geordieF
on 7 Jan 2017
Sure, feel free to do so. I can certainly understand that not everyone shares my tastes.
kovidgoyal
on 7 Jan 2017
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Yeah, one of the design goals of kitty is to not use any GUI toolkits, thereby being a simple and dependency light, portable as possible. Also (while this is entirely a matter of taste) I like the fact that the tabbar in kitty is drawn exactly like a UI from a terminal program, rather than the typical GUI toolkit tabbar/scrollbars which I find out of place in a terminal. There is no doubt that this makes kitty a little less new user friendly, but that is a price I am willing to pay -- kitty is not really meant for someone that just occassionally uses a terminal but for a someone that lives in one.